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Universal Serial Bus, an industry standard for serial communication.

The Universal Serial Bus is an industry standard for serial communication, defining:

  • connectors
  • protocols
  • cables

Originally developed to have a standard for connecting devices to computers.

More info on usb.org and wikipedia.

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Vista 64 not working after using Norton Ghost

We just acquired 7 new Dell Optiplex machines with Vista 64 bit installed. We installed all of our tools and applications on one of the machines and then used Norton Ghost to deploy to the other 6 machines. We have found that the ghosted machines do…
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udev only reports events for a USB device configuration, not for the USB device itself

I'm trying to execute a certain Python script on USB devices insertion. I need to handle all kinds of USB devices. I'm using a rule like this: SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", RUN+="/.../test.py $devpath" When I insert a USB flash…
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Reporting on additions and removals of devices to the USB hub under Windows

Our company is looking to implement a policy of monitoring USB additions and removals to our corporate PC's running the Windows operating system. We know that we can just block USB usage for users with policies under certain condition, but our…
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Linux: USB device power management

I have a USB Hard Drive In Windows, i used to click the "Safely remove" icon, and the hdd stopped spinning and was unmounted. Now, in Linux, unmounting doesn't poweroff the device, and it proceeds spinning when i remove it's cable. Is there a way to…
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How to make a bootable USB out of my VPS?

I copied a backup of my entire VPS (Debian on OpenVZ) on a USB drive, and want to boot from this USB to test something on my server (in fact its duplicate). However, there is no nothing in the boot directory (I've no idea how OpenVZ boots the OS).…
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Force the unloading of a kernel module when the USB devices is unplugged?

I'm using a MultiTech GPRS modem on Ubuntu 8.0.4 (2.6.24-24 kernel with the MultiTech patches to the ti_usb_3410_5052 module). The device works great. However if I disconnect it and then reconnect without removing the module in between, it hangs. …
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strange usb file system corruption

We have a few X7DBT Supermicro motherboards that is using a Kingston DataTraveler 102 USB Flash Drive as a boot drive. The customer had 10 systems and they say that the site had a power failure. Once the power came back on, the 6 systems did not…
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Monitor USB port without physically plugin hard drive

I have to design a program to monitor USB ports of a linux server to detect when an external hard drive is plugged in and removed. Now I have one confusion in my mind about it. I have my own VPS. so if i design a program then how can i check it…
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How do I permanently delete a USB storage drive?

Possible Duplicate: Zeroing SSD drives I have an external flash drive that I want to get rid off. I've deleted & formatted it from within Windows but I want to make sure no one can get to the data. Are there any tools I can run to make sure no…
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Usb automount in linux box

When a usbdisk is connected to a linux box, A folder with usb label is created in /media and mounted. how is it done & how it works in backend. can anyone please explain. Thanks Caterpillar.
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Moving usb mounts ubuntu 10.10

I use a usb 1Tb hard driver for backups. I have three of them and I have one one site (two weeks old) for the next backup, one off site (one week old), and one in the system (current back drive). I have mounted this drive at /mnt/backup. Since…
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USB stick unmounts itself, becomes unavailable ?!

On Centos 6, I am trying to copy some files from a Fat32 stick. I do a "fdisk -l" then take that name and mount it with this command: mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb I see the files there (I didnt count them tough), then I try to copy them from stick to…
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Dell Poweredge 1550 boot from USB or CDRom

I am trying to get a dell power edge 1550 to boot off cd or USB so I can install CentOs. I created a CD with a CentOs ISO on it but the system won't recognize it. Even when I set the settings to only boot from CDrom. I then used UNetbootin to create…
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How can I add usbip modules on Redhat 6 kernel?

I have RHEL 6 with # uname -r 2.6.32-131.0.15.el6.x86_64 I'm trying to build usbip modules on staging driver. Everything is OK. I have all needed *.ko files. But I cannot add those modules on running kernel. #…
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Weird Corruption Issue

Windows 7 Professional 750GB Hard drive, no corruption, chkdsk shows now errors. I installed a new internal 1TB hard drive in the laptop. Plugged in the 750GB drive via USB enclusure. I copy over files (a folder of jpgs for instance). If I view…
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